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The Price: $7.99
The Verdict: It's cute. It's makes a wonderful tic-tock noise. It helps you do roasted lamb and chicken and Beef Wellington and cakes. It's Lego. Really, it can't get any better than that. I only wish it could do more than one hour. More »
Lightning Review: Lego Egg Timer
The Gadget: Lego Egg Timer.The Price: $7.99
The Verdict: It's cute. It's makes a wonderful tic-tock noise. It helps you do roasted lamb and chicken and Beef Wellington and cakes. It's Lego. Really, it can't get any better than that. I only wish it could do more than one hour. More »
star wars
This is What Happens When You Combine Boba Fett, Flashdance and Fireworks
This is what happens when you mix Boba Fett, Flashdance and fireworks: a brilliant, but somehow disturbing stop-motion animation, that's what. Damn you, Patrick Boivin, for mixing everyone's favorite Star Wars bounty hunter with the movie scene that made me horny for the first time. [Editor's Note: TMI!] On the other side, it could have been a lot worse: More »
videos
Fun Times With Hands-Free Driving
We might have come up with a list of ridiculous things you can do while driving with a handsfree Bluetooth set, but some people actually acted it out. And who wants to read when you can just stare?
nasa
How the New Mission to the Moon Will Work
The NASA 2009 Astronaut Candidate Class recruitment—for the first mission to the Moon in four decades—may be over, but if you didn't send your résumé, don't worry: you can still be a space couch potato and look at the pretty images and videos, like this newly-released NASA simulation showing how the whole thing is going to work. More »
graffiti animation
MUTO is Among the More Astounding Videos We've Seen Online...or Off
Italian artist BLU is famous for painting politically and socially charged street murals, but his recent project involving street animation may be his most visually stunning. Called MUTO, the video is a series of digital stills assembled from sequential paintings on the streets/walls of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It's been floating around a bit, but if you haven't seen it, the effect is a sort of living, evolving mural that follows a dramatic, character-drive storyline. And if you watch one thing online today (or tomorrow or the next day), this should be it:
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10:50 AM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Mark Wilson
10,357 views,
59 comments
Latest by Paradise: wow. just wow. that's incredibly creative and well executed. @JacksSenseOfRejection & @Tirko: more like "hello and welcome to the banhammer!" :) ... bummer about you not being able to comment anymore. more »
sony ericsson
Sony Ericsson C702 Toilet Test Is Gross, Yet Intriguing
Nowhere in the specs of the Sony Ericsson C720 does it say that it's completely waterproof—just dust and splash proof. And if there's one thing that a toilet does well (at least when we use it), it's splash. This could be one of the more disgusting tests imaginable for a phone. Seriously, are you going to use it now, because the CDC thinks otherwise. [bka]
6:00 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Jason Chen
1,681 views,
26 comments
Latest by n/a: @zed0: it isnt advertised because they knew some idiot would try it by theirself more »
laptops
What Doesn't Break a Toughbook Makes It Stronger: How They Test the Hell Out of Them
Deep in the northwest corner of Kobe, Japan, there's a factory hidden away among green rice paddies, and sleepy farming villages of tiled roofs. If you were to travel here, to Takatsukadai—the middle of nowhere—you'd find Panasonic's Toughbook plant quietly making notebooks with the world's lowest failure rate. Well, not so quietly, actually. They employ a regimen of over 500 different tests, smashing, dropping and soaking Toughbooks, with over a thousand sacrifices each year. This is where I learned how the old computer plant manages to pull it off, miraculously, almost all under one roof. More »
4:00 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Tim Hornyak
5,405 views,
46 comments
Latest by n/a: Legally, they cannot say they test the hell out of them (Anyone that's been in a DC Subway station should get that reference..) " Notebooks also go on racks at the Kobe factory, and are given massages. Using Panasonic-branded handheld massagers (what more »
water guns
There are few things more enjoyable on a hot summer's day than an epic water gun battle with some friends. In the end, everybody wins, because everybody gets soaked and cools down. But you don't want to be caught with a crappy gun; then you'll just be the guy that everyone else gangs up on. We here at Gizmodo don't want that to happen to our beloved readers, which is why we took on the horrible, difficult task of playing with testing five of this season's hottest water guns under $20 to find out which one is going to give you the most splash for your cash.
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Gizmodo's Ultimate Water Gun Battlemodo Royale
There are few things more enjoyable on a hot summer's day than an epic water gun battle with some friends. In the end, everybody wins, because everybody gets soaked and cools down. But you don't want to be caught with a crappy gun; then you'll just be the guy that everyone else gangs up on. We here at Gizmodo don't want that to happen to our beloved readers, which is why we took on the horrible, difficult task of
12:00 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Adam Frucci
18,260 views,
75 comments
Latest by not2techy: I haven't had a water gun fight in ages, but a few years back, my parking space was being guarded by a territorial stray cat (she had just had kittens, and my assigned parking space was in her territory). So more »
clips
By Brilldea, this "living room" has been loaded with LED-backlit paneling to add "ambiance." In reality, they've constructed a sci-fi nightmare suitable for some sort of legitimate sequel to Kubrick's 2001. It's a bit freaky, but what's even more freaky is that we can actually do this stuff. Here's the video:
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This is What Living in a Sci-fi Movie Feels Like
By Brilldea, this "living room" has been loaded with LED-backlit paneling to add "ambiance." In reality, they've constructed a sci-fi nightmare suitable for some sort of legitimate sequel to Kubrick's 2001. It's a bit freaky, but what's even more freaky is that we can actually do this stuff. Here's the video:
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9:15 AM on Tue Jul 1 2008
By Mark Wilson
9,053 views,
21 comments
Latest by n/a: The first screengrab looks like the interior of our aircraft! more »
iphone ringtones
What's more awesome and annoying than regular music ringtones? Video ringtones. iFoneTec has developed VideosTone, which lets you play back a standard formatted-for-iPhone video whenever someone calls. You can pick different ones for different people, like Devo for Lam and Ricky Martin for Jesus. We've been trying to try this app for ourselves but our download from Installer.app keeps timing out. The people on ModMyiPhone have had more luck getting Coldplay to dance on their phones, apparently. [ModMyiPhone]
Video Ringtones For iPhone Revolutionize Answering Your Phone
What's more awesome and annoying than regular music ringtones? Video ringtones. iFoneTec has developed VideosTone, which lets you play back a standard formatted-for-iPhone video whenever someone calls. You can pick different ones for different people, like Devo for Lam and Ricky Martin for Jesus. We've been trying to try this app for ourselves but our download from Installer.app keeps timing out. The people on ModMyiPhone have had more luck getting Coldplay to dance on their phones, apparently. [ModMyiPhone]
10:00 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Jason Chen
6,765 views,
57 comments
Latest by n/a: ahhh this is awesome. My name is joe and im only 13 but i figured out how to convert the video ringtones to my iphone from my computer. Since a lot of people are having trouble with this more »
video
Chronotopic Anamorphosis: a Fancy Name for a Trippy Video Effect
This crazy video is the test of some new video software that had a clip "digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different frames in the display. The result is a distortion of the figures caused by their motion in time, or, as Brazilian researcher Arlindo Machado calls it: chronotopic anamorphosis." My money is on this becoming a plugin on the next generation of Photo Booth, because it's certifiably badass. [Vimeo via Kottke]
4:40 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Adam Frucci
5,819 views,
55 comments
Latest by n/a: reminds me of how the Nobodies in KH2 move. more »
iphone
JesusPhone Breaks Just in Time for 3G (Verdict: Frak! I mean, YEAH!)
My iPhone broke. Yes, the JesusPhone broke in Jesús' pants. Or somewhere else, because I can't remember exactly when it happened. I just found it that way in the morning. More »
cluelessness
The Today Show Has Seen the Future of Gadgetry, and It's Idiotic
You've gotta feel sort of bad for people who get all of their gadget news from places like the Today Show. I mean, they did a section on future gadgets this morning, and what did it feature? A $700 doorbell! A $430 water filter! A $1,200 microwave that cooks entire turkeys! Nothing any sane person would ever buy and not even anything that uses technology that gives us a glimpse at future gadgets. Instead, it's just normal items with gimmicks and ridiculous price tags. For shame, Today Show. For shame. [Boing Boing Gadgets]
12:45 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Adam Frucci
11,536 views,
59 comments
Latest by DigitalSciGuy: And for this reason, TechTV should never have been merged with (i.e. killed off) by a gaming network...in the least, these morning shows should actually consult real technologists, not lofty tech correspondents who think they know what's going on and more »
fail
Video Shows Iran Will Destroy Infidels Two Hours Late
Hey Mr. Pentagon Guys, John Mayer here. Remember those plans to invade Iran because of their missiles and weapons of mass destruction and the long fugly beards and a musical taste that doesn't include me? Yeah? Well, just take your time. Watch the video. All will be clearer afterwards. Thanks yous, John.
bill gates retirement party
Retromodo: Bill Gates Last Moments at the Office CES 2008 Video
Is Bill's last day in the office going just like this video he showed us back at CES? Rumor has it that its going EXACTLY like this, but with a bit more emotion. [Original Post]
Giz goes to Lego
65-foot-high Lego Cathedrals Store 19 Billion Pieces a Year
Without a doubt, the Lego brick storage buildings were the most impressive part of my visit to Lego. When I first saw their 65.6-foot high ceilings, with multiple giant robots going up and down retrieving boxes full of bricks, I felt like I entered the Matrix. Below the thunderous noise of the flying machines, I heard myself shouting: "It's a cathedral." And as you will see in the video, with a total 65.6 square-miles of shelf space—900 million pieces at any given time—they are indeed The Lego Cathedrals. I was in total awe, and the amazement didn't stop there. More »
6:00 AM on Fri Jun 27 2008
By jesusdiaz
68,090 views,
56 comments
Latest by ARVash: Not trying to be overcritical here, but the term Cathedral is reserved for the "Chair of the Bishop" So where the heck is the bishop of this lego cathedral and I want to see his hat! more »
Bill Gates Retirement Party
